Magazine cover: Cigar

Challenge #52 in the The Art Director series. Hosted by jezsik.

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A mid-market consumer magazine, specializing in cigars, is looking for a compelling cover. The client requires a very pleasing image in a vertical format (portrait orientation) and must prominently depict a cigar. The image may be of a lone cigar, multiple cigars or someone enjoying a cigar, so long as the reader can see the cigar quite clearly.

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Announced:

Wednesday, 21st December, 2011 (GMT)

Submissions:

Wednesday, 28th December, 2011 – Tuesday, 3rd January, 2012 (GMT)

Voting:

Wednesday, 4th January, 2012 – Tuesday, 10th January, 2012 (GMT)

Processing rules:

No borders or watermarks.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Assume you have a model release from any recognizable subject.
Adult subjects only.
Commercial grade cigars only (this is a consumer magazine).
Image must be pleasing (see how that's listed twice?).

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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740 votes

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Challenge comments

Total comments: 3

What's with all the 0.5 votes in this challenge? Somebody went berserk?

0 upvotes

I feel the same when I see armed soldiers marching like robots just to please some pervert dressed in medals and ribbons. Or when I see TV ads for lottery, banking or some other meta-math crime. Or people drinking water out of bottles while jogging along polluted rivers. Or fast-food metabolically destroying whole nations. Or lawyers defending drug traffickers. Or morons leading countries where people eat out of garbage containers.
Compared to those, dangers of smoking are outright laughable...

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I guess smoking doesn't make people healthier and showing "the image of someone enjoying a cigar" is not unconditionally right thing to do, since it means, that smoking can't affect people negatively or even means, that smoking is "nice", "cool", "profitable", "natural", "completely normal", etc...

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